Provide pre built binaries

[ShivamJoker]

Hey, it will be great if we can use pre built binaries with mosquitto or we can try compiling both in one package if it won't work independently.

[iegomez]

Hi, @ShivamJoker!
I'm not sure about releasing binaries since the plugin needs to be compiled against specific versions of Mosquitto to work correctly because their plugin interface is different per version. Also, it's a bit of a burden to release binaries when compiling the project is fairly easy. I will give it a thought, but don't expect binary releases any soon.

[ShivamJoker]

At least we can do for the latest version of mosquitto and we can use GitHub actions as well to automatically compile it.

[iegomez]

That sounds like something I'd be more willing to maintain, but I haven't played with github actions yet. Want to take a shot at it and open a PR?

[ShivamJoker]

Sure, I can give it a try but I may need bit of guidance.

Will it directly work if I just compile and get the goauth.so file ?

[iegomez]

Thanks!

Will it directly work if I just compile and get the goauth.so file ?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that.

[ShivamJoker]

I mean the steps you have provided in readme for building the plugin with mosquitto.

What do I need to do after that ?

[iegomez]

I don't know if there's an automated way to release binaries based on GitHub actions builds, I'll have to look that up.

[ShivamJoker]

@iegomez I am asking is the goauth.so file we need to make this plugin work with mosquitto ?

[iegomez]

Yeah, goauth.so is the only thing needed, it's the shared object that Mosquitto loads.

[iegomez]

@ShivamJoker any updates on this? Let me know if I can close it otherwise.

Cheers!

[ShivamJoker]

Hey sorry I got caught up but I'll definitely try this week

[ShivamJoker]

What I am thinking is we already have an image on dockerhub and we are publishing it on every release
And here is the action for it by @arctic-alpaca
https://github.com/iegomez/mosquitto-go-auth/blob/master/.github/workflows/build_and_push_docker_images.yml

What we can do is run the container with the image and copy the goauth.so file and publish it to github releases.

I also don't have much experience with the workflows if @arctic-alpaca can help it would be great.

[arctic-alpaca]

I can't currently help much with this sorry.

A first step could be to document how to get the goauth.so file from a Docker container to help people who can't compile it themselves.

I'm not sure whether this is relevant. Are there differences in the resulting goauth.so file depending on whether glibc or musl is used by the building OS? I think I remember some issues with the Docker containers with alpine.

[iegomez]

I'm closing this for now, feel free to reopen it if there are any updates.